By Tom O'Connor
For years, litigators have relied on a system of scanning and sequentially numbering individual document pages, extracting the text electronically and producing single page TIFF files as the standard method of working with electronic documents in the discovery process. But what if there were a new way of working
with electronic documents that could reduce the costs of that process by as much as 65%?
Attorney Browning Marean of DLA Piper, a well known proponent of litigation technology, thinks that
cost savings are the only way to make this new paradigm attractive to attorneys. He feels that this
perspective goes all the way back to the days of the law school civil procedure class, where professors were fond of citing the English case that first established the awarding of punitive damages with a reference to a poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson: “the jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that Honour feels”.
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